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The Golden Globes awards ceremony had several surprising and unforgettable moments. The Golden Globes has been honouring professionals in the film and television industry since 1944 and spotlights outstanding achievements in filmmaking, so it came as no shock to see such great nominations at this year’s ceremony. The categories cover everything from motion pictures, performances, television series, and breaking box office records.
The film Oppenheimer won five of the awards offered including Best Director- Motion Picture (honouring Christopher Nolan), Best Motion Picture in the category of Drama, Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (honouring Ludwig Göransson), Best Performance by a Male Actor for Motion Picture in the category of Drama (honouring Cillian Murphy), and Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Motion Picture in the category of Drama (honouring Robert Downey Jr.).
Some last minute winners of the awards took fans of films by surprise. The Boy and the Heron, having only been released in December last year, won Best Motion Picture in the Animated category when most people were betting on Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse to take home the prize. The film Poor Things, also released in the U.S. in December and just released this month in the U.K., took home the award for Best Motion Picture in the category of Musical or Comedy which fans everywhere expected to go to the summer blockbuster Barbie.
Unexpectedly, the film Barbie only won two of its nine nominations. The film won the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, and Best Original Song in the category of Motion Picture (honouring Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell). However, fans were pleasantly surprised to see such iconic females in Hollywood supporting so many other females at the awards ceremony such as Jennifer Lawrence giving a standing ovation for Emma Stone when she won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture in the category of Musical or Comedy. Jennifer Lawrence was seen mouthing to the camera “If I don’t win, I’m leaving” just before the announcement of Emma Stone’s win for the award.
Another shock came during the acceptance speeches as several winners thanked so many people who work behind the scenes of the film and television industry including assistants, camera crew, the movie theatres themselves, and ‘all the Barbies and Kens in front of and behind the screen’. Perhaps one of the biggest shocks came during the monologues from the host of the Golden Globes, Jo Koy.
In his opening speech for the 81st Golden Globes he made several severe remarks including:
“I only watched Beef. I love you Ali. You know what I mean? It’s mandatory, I’m asian.”
“Oppenheimer and Barbie are competing for Cinematic Box Office Achievement. Oppenheimer is based on a 721 page Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Manhattan Project and Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies… The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet, or what casting directors call ‘character actor’.”
“Yo! I got the gig 10 days ago. You want a perfect monologue? Yo. Shut up.”
“The one thing I learned about [Killers of the Flower Moon] is that white people stole everything. You guys stole like everything.”
“You know what I loved about Saltburn? I learned that satanic families have feelings too. Is Berry Keoghan here? Where’s he seated? Where’s your penis seated? That’s the real star of the show.”
The host, Jo Koy, has doubled down on several of these statements claiming many of the jokes were written by the Golden Globes writers and explains ‘we can’t joke with each other anymore’ after he received massive amounts of negative feedback from critics and fans.
Janine has always been a part of music and performing. The first show that inspired her to go into theatre was the Velveteen Rabbit which she saw as a child, and Drew works to keep that magic alive in her work. When Drew was accepted into an internship program for audio engineering at a recording studio, she jumped at the opportunity. That was at the start of 2020, and so much has happened since then, both in her career and in the world. Since then, Drew has taken several opportunities to work at recording studios, concerts, festivals, and even large theatres while spending some time on tour. Drew's favorite by far though, has been the chance to work on Broadways and West End shows, as this was a dream come true. Drew is honoured to get to share these experiences from being inside the entertainment industry.
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